FTT surges 50% on SBF's Trump pardon bid
Polymarket prices the clemency shot at just 8% — the FTT rally is a political-options trade on a ghost token, not a recovery thesis, and a pardon would not revive FTX or restructure creditor claims.
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Polymarket prices the clemency shot at just 8% — the FTT rally is a political-options trade on a ghost token, not a recovery thesis, and a pardon would not revive FTX or restructure creditor claims.
The plaintiff wants Satoshis-era coins declared lost property at under $10 a wallet, but the moment those untouched coins move, the claim collides with KYC and reporting law.
The petition is pending at DOJ's Office of the Pardon Attorney — but Trump publicly lumped SBF with defendants he did not intend to pardon in January, undercutting the bet before it was filed.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has applied for a presidential pardon from Donald…
Bankman-Fried's filing is procedural, not a path to clemency — Trump told the Times in January he has no plans to pardon the former FTX CEO, and the White House pointed back to those remarks on…
Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder serving a 25-year federal prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy, has formally…
Orchard's privacy shield means a counterfeiting flaw cannot be ruled out retroactively, and the market is treating that uncertainty as if it had already happened.
One of crypto's loudest perma-bulls just walked away, citing weak risk-reward — and named Michael Saylor's Strategy as the canary he thinks is starting to crack.
A New York Supreme Court judge has stayed a lawsuit seeking ownership of nearly 40,000 dormant Bitcoin wallets…
The Bridge is paused, the validation flaw is identified, and ~5B SYS in tainted outputs now sit on the UTXO chain — the structural question is whether exchanges can isolate the trail fast enough to…
A New York Supreme Court justice blocked any default judgment in the 'Noah Doe' case after an amicus brief argued the state's lost-and-found statute was never designed to seize blockchain addresses —…
The protocol is also freezing locked LAB from NAV until August — but on-chain investigator ZachXBT says the strategy was the real mistake, not the unwind.
Three years ago, the SEC filed a sweeping lawsuit against Coinbase, alleging the exchange operated as an unregistered…
Britain's ban on retail crypto derivatives puts Hyperliquid on the wrong side of UK law, and the platform's HIP-3 push into oil, gold, and equities is exactly the overlap CME and ICE just raised with…
The Orchard counterfeiting vulnerability can't be ruled out from chain data alone, forcing Shielded Labs to propose a shielded-pool migration that resets shielded-state trust from scratch.
The move lands with ETH down 24% on the week and trading below $1,600 — and is the latest in a string of disclosed selling by named Ethereum holders.
The clash crystallises a broader retail-trader grievance: high-profile commentators touting tokens publicly then quietly rotating out before the bid thins out, leaving followers holding the bag.
Three years ago, the SEC filed suit against Coinbase in what many read as an existential regulatory threat to the…
The 1LwWt wallet moved 15 of its 35.55 BTC seven months after its OP_RETURN response window expired, undercutting the abandoned-property theory that underpins the 3.8M BTC claim.
The same engineer who used Anthropic's Opus 4.8 to surface a four-year-old Zcash flaw says he is queuing Monero and other privacy coins — and the disclosure-only playbook is now under market test.